The democratic and the liberalization program launched by the new administration have contributed to the economic growth in Uzbekistan, and hence higher public spending. However, the lack of transparency in the use of public resources has long been leading to wasting of those resources.
The people in power are getting insensitively hedonist nowadays, namely, every member of the Legislative chamber and the people in the executive branch have a car worth 25 thousand USD provided by the state.
There are many deprived and people in preccrious state, in particular the street cleaners hired by the state, who are paid starvation wages while civil servants are getting heedlessly lavish and financially irresponsible.
With cleaning crews highly understaffed, street cleaners are paid around $150-200 monthly wage. They work outdoors at extreme temperatures ranging between +50 degrees Celsius in July to -15 degrees in January. On top of that they are obliged to sweep highways which is associated with danger, with cases of cleaners being killed after being hit by trucks and cars.
All in all, it is a major problem when government officials opt for lavish and showy building designs, luxury cars and business travels, instead of better infrastructure, schools, financial support to vulnerable people and many other pressing issues. In other words, being heedlessly lavish in expenditures is reckless profligacy and financial irresponsibility amid privation and while starvation wages are paid to schoolteachers, kindergarten workers, public health workers, cleaners at municipal service and many others.
